Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th June 2005, 03:22 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th June 2005, 03:06 AM
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Yannis, before I forget, I believe the type of...
Yannis, before I forget, I believe the type of suspension cord arrangement that you are referring to is called a "baldric".
That's very interesting information on the Syrian/Egyptian blades, with my...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th June 2005, 02:48 AM
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A wonderful find.....congratulations!
I often...
A wonderful find.....congratulations!
I often find it interesting that you have western/European swords and ethnographic swords, yet when the specifics become known, the line blurs and so many move...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th June 2005, 04:01 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th June 2005, 12:27 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th June 2005, 05:50 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th June 2005, 05:45 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th June 2005, 05:31 PM
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A VERY interesting item, and I wouldn't be too...
A VERY interesting item, and I wouldn't be too hasy in assigning it to a "tool" status, with hammer polls having been very common trade axes often used as tomohawks, for example, in North america...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th June 2005, 05:06 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th June 2005, 04:58 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th June 2005, 04:45 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th June 2005, 04:23 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th June 2005, 04:16 AM
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Simply beautiful and thank you for posting it...
Simply beautiful and thank you for posting it here.
I have to think that in Japanese armor the epitome of intimidation was reached in the civilized world, with the unfortunate person facing the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th June 2005, 04:00 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th June 2005, 03:33 AM
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I may well be wrong, but this seems to have an...
I may well be wrong, but this seems to have an Indonesian feel to it, with the patterning in the blade seeming inconsistant with othre Moro panabas.On the other hand, my giant kampilon blade has two...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th June 2005, 03:25 AM
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Rick, I'm ashamed of you...."definitely"?
I for...
Rick, I'm ashamed of you...."definitely"?
I for one don't think that it's ceremonial, rather just the opposite, and while it may be a one-of-a-kind, it may also be that this simply is the first one...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th June 2005, 04:35 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th June 2005, 06:18 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th June 2005, 06:10 AM
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Honestly Hal, I think that original discussion...
Honestly Hal, I think that original discussion was based largely upon incomplete information available at the time, and I'm fairly certain that the piece that started this thread is from the Sudan....
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th June 2005, 05:44 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th May 2005, 02:36 AM
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Sometimes all that can be done is to bump a...
Sometimes all that can be done is to bump a thread a few times until one of the members that can translate the inscription pops in, Aurangzeb, with another choice being to do a search on translations...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th May 2005, 02:27 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th May 2005, 04:56 AM
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The topics of museum collections, displays,...
The topics of museum collections, displays, information and preservation have been discussed here in the past, and hopefully, will continue to be discussed in the future as well.
Likewise personal...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th May 2005, 06:05 AM
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Thanks of chiming in and filling in the gaps,...
Thanks of chiming in and filling in the gaps, Jim.....as you can tell, this one caught me entirely off guard.
The only thing I can add is to the comment about the people being nominally Sunni...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th May 2005, 05:26 AM
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I'd guess you would deffinitely have a chance,...
I'd guess you would deffinitely have a chance, although that's an area where people have been searching for remnants for well over 3,000 years, which is a LONG period of time for something to escape...
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